Deep Zero (Dana Hargrove Legal Mystery)

Riveting reading... -- Foreword ReviewsIts one a.m. Do you know where your teenagers are? Prosecutor Dana Hargrove makes it a point to know. But one night in the dead of winter she should have known more.In February 2009 Dana is the newly-elected district attorney of a suburban county north of Manhattan where she lives with her husband attorney Evan Goodhue and their two teenage children. The Great Recession has seen a rise in substance abuse and domestic violence. Its also the era of burgeoning social media an intoxicating lure for wayward and disaffected teens who find new methods of victimization: a game to some with no thought of the consequences.During an arctic cold snap the body of a high school student is discovered lodged in the ice floes of the Hudson River. People are crying for justice but there doesnt seem to be a law that fits. Days later in one hellish night Danas children are sucked into a criminal investigation against several of their classmates making her a convenient target for community outrage.In Deep Zero the fourth standalone novel of legal suspense featuring the dynamic prosecutor Dana walks the tightrope like never before in her tricky balance between professional ethics and family loyalties.